The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule: 1516-1800

ISBN-13: 9781138643444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Jane Hathaway

Opis

The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule assesses the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq and Yemen between 1516 and 1800. It is a unique and essential resource for students of early modern Ottoman history and the early modern Middle East.

Spis treści

Introduction: Rewriting Arab History, 1516-1800; Chapter 1: Land and Peoples; Chapter 2: The Ottoman Conquest of the Arab Lands; Chapter 3: The Organization of the Ottoman Provincial Administration; Chapter 4: Crisis and Change in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 5: Provincial Notables in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 6: Religious and Intellectual Life; Chapter 7: Urban Life and Trade; Chapter 8: Rural Life; Chapter 9: Non-Normative Populations I: Non-Muslims; the Poor and Disabled; Chapter 10: Non-Normative Populations II: Women, Non-Elite Slaves, Eunuchs; Chapter 11: Ideological and Political Changes in the Late Eighteenth Century (and Afterward); Conclusion: Transformations under Ottoman Rule

O autorze

Jane Hathaway is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her previous publications include The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlis (1997); A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (2003); Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (2006); and The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker (2018).